1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,760 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,800 Consequences of believing a lie. That's why the apostle Paul 6 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,760 every time we take the Lord's Supper, he says to examine 7 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,560 yourself, whether you're in the faith every time that supper 8 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,240 goes around, would the God, if any of us here are posers and 9 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,240 we're not Christians, that we would take that we would examine 10 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,120 ourselves and we'd hear the Spirit of God say you're still 11 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,800 lost, you're phony, you need to get saved. 12 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,680 And if you hear that, be thankful that he's shown you 13 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,880 that you are in delusion. It's not enough to speak 14 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,400 spiritually or to fill your head with knowledge of the Lord and 15 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,040 just His Word. Being a believer, true in faith 16 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,640 is something that we feel in our hearts. 17 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,600 It's the difference between merely performing outward 18 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,720 displays of what we think a Christian should look like and 19 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,760 walking in close, continual relationship with the Lord. 20 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:33,120 Today, Pastor Clark teaches us that true faith is what changes 21 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,120 us from the inside out, molding us and shaping us into the 22 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:41,160 people God intended us to be. Now here's Pastor Clark in 23 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,360 Revelation Chapter 19 with today's edition of Living Waters 24 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,680 of Grace. Revelation 19, Verse 11. 25 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,360 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold a White Horse. 26 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,200 And he who sat on him was called faithful and true, and in 27 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,400 righteousness he judges and makes war. 28 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,440 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many 29 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,520 crowns. He had a name written that no 30 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,479 one knew except himself. He was clothed with a robe 31 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:13,520 dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. 32 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,520 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and 33 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,960 clean, followed him on white horses. 34 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,880 Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he 35 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,440 should strike the nations, and he himself will roll them with 36 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,840 the rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,480 of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, And he has on his 38 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:42,000 robe and on his sigh a name written King of kings and Lord 39 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,680 of Lords. Now if you look in Revelation 40 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:50,160 chapter 19 and you see in verse 8, and this is referring to the 41 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,960 marriage supper of the Lamb that we studied about several weeks 42 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:55,560 ago. And This Is Us who are in heaven 43 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,600 at this particular time, the wonderful time where he says I 44 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,200 so long to eat of this bread and drink this cup, but I won't do 45 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,880 it again until we're all together in heaven. 46 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,360 And so the celebration of the marriage supper of the Lamb is 47 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,920 the first time in history after Christ's ascension that he'll 48 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:16,480 partake of this supper with his bride. 49 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,000 What a glorious day that'll be. We're all going to have that 50 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,240 privilege to be there if we're believers and celebrate that 51 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,880 time. And not only will we have this 52 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,280 privilege of celebrating this wonderful, glorious supper, but 53 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,640 he says it'll be granted to us. It will be arrayed in fine 54 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:34,360 linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts 55 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,000 of the Saints. And so the Lord will cover us 56 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,120 with his glory, with his brightness, with his 57 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,880 righteousness. And we'll all be sitting around 58 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:48,520 white as snow, pure, no sin, no problems anymore, no difficulty 59 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,480 with struggles in this world because we'll be in His 60 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,640 presence. And the righteousness that we 61 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,120 have is this righteousness of Jesus Christ, because none of us 62 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,160 are righteous in and of ourselves, are we? 63 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,680 We can't stand before God and this act like we have it 64 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,640 together, because we don't. We only have it together because 65 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,920 of what Jesus has done for us. And so he allows us to wear 66 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:14,200 these robes of righteousness, these pure white robes and the 67 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,000 robes tied together in the fact that it says these righteous 68 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,200 acts of his Saints. Now everything we do in this 69 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:26,120 earth in the name of Jesus and by His Spirit is recorded in a 70 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,120 book. And when God opens those books 71 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,320 at the judgement seat of Christ for the body, for the believers, 72 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,840 for the church, he'll judge out of that book the things we did 73 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:39,720 in the body, whether they're good or evil. 74 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,680 And I would trust that you and myself, we want to have as much 75 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,200 possible written in that book that is good. 76 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,120 Amen. Not evil, because what is 77 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,760 goodwill come out as gold, silver, and precious stone. 78 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,080 What is evil will be burned and it'll be destroyed in the fire. 79 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,240 So keep in mind that we're saved by grace through faith in Christ 80 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,400 alone. But at the same time there is 81 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,160 this responsibility for us to do the things that He told us to 82 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,720 do. For it says in Ephesians 210 For 83 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,960 we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus. 84 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,440 Unto what good works which God hath before ordained, that we 85 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,000 should walk in them. And at that final day, the Lord 86 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,520 says, Well, why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the 87 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,480 things which I say. So the Lord ties a very strong 88 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,280 emphasis on the fact that if we have true faith, it's going to 89 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:32,040 be seen by what we do right. It's going to be seen by how we 90 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,160 live, how we follow his word, how we listen to what he says. 91 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:42,400 Now when we look at 19, it says about the Lord Himself when he's 92 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,320 coming with us in 13, it says he's clothed with a robe dipped 93 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,480 in blood, and his name is called the word of God in 14. 94 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,520 And the armies in heaven clothed in fine linen. 95 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,000 That's the same group that we just looked at in verse 8. 96 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,720 That's us. The armies clothed in fine 97 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,440 linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses. 98 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,760 So we see the distinction here between, as I read earlier, the 99 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:13,040 rapture of the Church one event, and the second coming of Christ, 100 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:15,640 which occurs at the end of the tribulation. 101 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,560 Now I'm going to give you a couple parallels here so you can 102 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,800 keep in your mind the distinction between the rapture 103 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,080 and the second coming of Christ. First of all, as I said, the 104 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,480 rapture is the catching away of all believers, those who are 105 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,000 presently alive on the earth at the time of the trumpet sound, 106 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,600 and those who are in the graves, their bodies will be actually 107 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,960 literally resurrected out of the graves, and their spirits who 108 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,840 are with the Lord will meet together with the body. 109 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,000 And then the Lord will give us these new bodies which are going 110 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,400 to be glorious without corruption in the second coming. 111 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,000 There is no lifting up of believers from the face of the 112 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,760 earth to meet the Lord. We're coming back with the Lord, 113 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,240 right? It's a separate event #2 the 114 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,760 raptured Saints. We go to be with the Lord, the 115 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,040 second coming. We're coming back, as I said, to 116 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,520 the earth. Now in the rapture, the earth is 117 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,240 not judged yet, but in the second coming of Christ, the 118 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,800 earth will be judged. The rapture is imminent. 119 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,920 As I said earlier, any moment it could happen. 120 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,520 Today I was watching a video, pretty cool, this pastors 121 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,440 preaching about the rapture and people were sitting out there 122 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,240 with their Bibles and all this. And he said, and it could happen 123 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,960 right now. And all of a sudden, like 124 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,760 there's all these people disappear and then there's like 125 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,400 a few people sitting there looking around like what 126 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,480 happened? You know, what about me, you 127 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:39,960 know? And they realized they weren't 128 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,200 true believers. They saw on the ground and got 129 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,160 on their knees. Now the good news is even after 130 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,960 the rapture, people will still have an opportunity to get 131 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,720 saved. The Lord will still be saving 132 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,160 people, but they'll have to go through the tribulation. 133 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:57,560 The second coming of Christ follows definite predicted signs 134 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,880 that we see throughout the tribulation. 135 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,600 And 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 talks about the Day of the Lord, 136 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,600 which is a period of time from the beginning of the rapture, 137 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,880 when we're taken out to the end of time, through the Millennium, 138 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,680 through the tribulation, to the end of time when the Lord 139 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,600 creates the new heavens and the new earth. 140 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,280 So it's a completely different time segment. 141 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,560 The rapture effects believers only. 142 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,040 The second coming effects all people. 143 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,200 Those of us who come back with Christ to the earth and all 144 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,480 those who are in the earth will start to battle against the Lord 145 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,480 and His army. The rapture happens before the 146 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:39,799 tribulation, before God's wrath. The second coming concludes at 147 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:45,040 the end of the tribulation in regard to Satan. 148 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,760 When the rapture occurs, there's no reference to what happens to 149 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,600 Satan at the second coming of Christ. 150 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,480 We see that Christ binds Satan for 1000 years during the 151 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:59,240 millennial reign. The rapture Christ comes for his 152 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,560 own and the second coming. Christ is coming with his own 153 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,640 and the rapture. Christ comes in the air. 154 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,760 In the second coming He comes to the earth and the rapture Christ 155 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,560 claims His bride. In the second coming He comes to 156 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:18,120 the earth with his bride in the rapture. 157 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,800 Only his own will see him in the second coming. 158 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,280 The Bible says every eye shall see him in the rapture. 159 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:30,080 The tribulation begins right after we are taken out, and the 160 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:35,240 millennial Kingdom begins at the second coming. 161 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,080 There's enough information in the scriptures to make it clear 162 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,320 that the raptures are quite different event than the second 163 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,520 coming of Jesus Christ. And the reason I bring this up, 164 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,960 there's a lot of confusion regarding these things in the 165 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,200 body of Christ today. You have people who are pre 166 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,960 Trib, mid Trib, post Trib, all millennial, post millennial, all 167 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,680 these different end time views, eschatological end time views. 168 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:06,040 We Calvary Chapel are historic pre mill, pre Trib in the sense 169 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,520 of our eschatology and we're not alone. 170 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,160 Good Bible teachers that you listen to in a radio like John 171 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,640 MacArthur or Charles Lindahl, Charles Stanley, a lot of you 172 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,120 guys listen, I know to some of these people there, they take 173 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,680 the same position we do. So we're in good company with 174 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,880 credible Bible scholars. However, I said this isn't 175 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,840 anything to divide on with people who have different 176 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,640 positions. The good news is whenever the 177 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,520 Lord comes back to all realize we're right and they were wrong, 178 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,640 but if they're in Christ, we're all going to love each other 179 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:36,840 anyway and it's not going to matter. 180 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:42,040 But it is important in regard to how we're preparing for the 181 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,880 Lord's return and how we live in light of that return. 182 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,320 So let's look at the section that we're going to spend some 183 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:53,320 time on Revelation chapter 19. As we see in verse 11, the 184 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,840 heaven is open and behold a White Horse, a physical animal, 185 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,680 a horse. We're all going to be riding 186 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:02,360 horses when we come back with the Lord at the second coming. 187 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:05,160 Now I don't like riding horses. I'm afraid of getting on them 188 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,520 because they can go out of control, you know, and unless 189 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,080 you're are really trained to tell it what to do, it just has 190 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,320 a mind of its own. But the good news is when we 191 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:13,960 come back with the Lord, don't worry about that. 192 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,080 We're going to get on the horse. The horse is going to know 193 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,720 exactly where it's going, what it's supposed to do. 194 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:20,160 We're just going to have to hold on. 195 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:21,320 That's all we're going to have to do. 196 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,600 But Christ is going to come back on this beautiful White Horse 197 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,080 and we're all going to ride with him. 198 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,280 And it says he who sat on him was called faithful and true 199 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,240 capital F capital T in your Bibles and righteousness. 200 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,640 He judges and makes war. Now, this is a time that I think 201 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,800 every one of us should be looking forward to. 202 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,400 I was thinking about the world the way it is today and the 203 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,400 complete ignorance that it has toward the things of God, this 204 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,120 independence of a Creator. Sometimes you wish you had this 205 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,560 power in you, and we do. We have the Holy Spirit's power 206 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:56,200 in us, but we don't have the power to bring forth judgment, 207 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,600 do we? Only Christ has that power and 208 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,360 authority. Sometimes you just long for 209 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:05,000 certain people you know that will realize that God is the 210 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:05,880 Lord. Amen. 211 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,680 People that scoff and ridicule and laugh at you and reject you 212 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,400 and think you're nuts. You just can't wait for the day 213 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,360 that they realize how real God is and how holy is and how just 214 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,160 and how glorious he is. But this is the day that we have 215 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,840 to wait for when Christ comes and the liberal thought the day 216 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,240 is I'm not a Sinner. Why would he be talking about 217 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,080 sin? I'm a good person and how 218 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,920 there's no such place as hell. I would not even acknowledge 219 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,120 that a place like that exists, some might say. 220 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,880 Someone told me recently that a relative went to a neighbor and 221 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,760 was telling the neighbor boy about the importance of knowing 222 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,240 Jesus Christ and accepting Him as your Savior. 223 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,920 Because if you don't have him as your Savior and you're Lord, 224 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,160 you'll suffer the consequences one day of eternal hell. 225 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,760 And the mother came over very angry and very disturbed that 226 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,320 this young man had told her son about hell. 227 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,120 And she said, we don't believe in such a place. 228 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,240 That's morbid. We would never accept anything 229 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,880 like that. Well, her authority certainly 230 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,120 isn't the word of God, is it? And sometimes it's difficult for 231 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,440 us because if we are Christians, we have to proclaim everything 232 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,320 that this Bible teaches, even when it makes people disturbed 233 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,400 and when it makes them uncomfortable. 234 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,960 And that's the difference between churches in these last 235 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,640 days that are proclaiming the truth and churches that are 236 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,400 proclaiming the lie. But there is this liberal 237 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,800 thought today. There is no place in this world 238 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,560 today for any idea of judgment. There's no consequences for sin. 239 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,920 We make up God in our own image and and how we want to think 240 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,160 about him. That's what's called 241 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,640 universalism. This pretense and delusion today 242 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,360 that people have will one day be very, very costly. 243 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,880 If you look at Matthew Chapter 7 for a moment, the slip in your 244 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:02,760 Bible over to the left Matthew Chapter 7, it says in verse 21 245 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,960 of Matthew 7, not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord shall 246 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,640 enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will 247 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,160 of my Father in heaven. You want to underline it in your 248 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,960 Bible. It isn't enough this to say you 249 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:20,040 believe in Christ, but you need to be doing his will like Jesus 250 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,840 when he was on earth. He's perfect God, perfect man. 251 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,040 He says my will is to do the will of the Father and if we're 252 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,360 his offspring, then we should have the same desire in our 253 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,560 hearts to do the will of the Father. 254 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,080 He said, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we 255 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,120 not prophesized in your name, cast out demons in your name and 256 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,680 done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, 257 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,080 I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice 258 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,520 lawlessness. And won't that be a shock to 259 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,120 your whole life, thinking you're on the right track and you're 260 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,680 doing the right things? But meanwhile, your heart is 261 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,920 just not pure because you haven't allowed Christ to save 262 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:59,280 you. And so you're trying to be a 263 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,240 religious person. I think of all the institutions 264 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,760 on the face of the earth today, many churches are very 265 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,040 religious. They have statues, they have 266 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,560 crosses, they have icons, They have all kind of spiritual 267 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,200 atmosphere. And yet Jesus would say many 268 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,240 times he could say to us today, just because we have a dove that 269 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,240 represents the Holy Spirit of the cross here, He could say 270 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,160 these people worship me with their lips, but their heart is 271 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,720 far from me. And so the consequences of 272 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,440 believing a lie. That's why the apostle Paul 273 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,360 every time we take the Lord's Supper, he says to examine 274 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,120 yourself, whether you're in the faith every time that supper 275 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,920 goes around. Would the God, if any of us here 276 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,640 are posers and we're not Christians that we would take 277 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,560 that we would examine ourselves and we'd hear the Spirit of God 278 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:51,240 say you're still lost, you're phony, you need to get saved. 279 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,200 And if you hear that, be thankful that he's shown you 280 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:59,120 that you are in delusion. But if we can take that supper 281 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,080 and we allow the Spirit to examine us and we have that 282 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,760 assurance, blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. 283 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,560 Oh, by the foretaste of glory, define air salvation purchased 284 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,480 of blood, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood. 285 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,880 We can know that for sure, can't we? 286 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,560 We have that assurance in us or our heart does not condemn us. 287 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:27,040 God, the Lord Jesus Christ comes with crowns of triumph and glory 288 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,880 and deity as we see here in this section of Revelation. 289 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,080 He's all knowing. He has flaming eyes. 290 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,480 His eyes and verse 12 are like a flame of fire, a holy judgement. 291 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,160 Christ, as He looks upon you and me. 292 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,000 His Word, the Word of God, is the instrument of His righteous 293 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,760 judgement. Look at Hebrews chapter 4. 294 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,440 Just move over to the left there a little bit a few books. 295 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:55,480 Hebrews chapter 4 verse 11 through 13. 296 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,720 It says. Let us therefore be diligent to 297 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:05,400 enter that rest lest anyone fall according to the same example of 298 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,640 disobedience. For the word of God and the 299 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:10,560 Bible declares Christ as the Word. 300 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,200 In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and 301 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,200 the Word was God. John chapter one verse one. 302 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,520 Not like the Jehovah witnesses would say in the beginning was 303 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:24,400 the Word and the word was with God and the Word was a God. 304 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,359 No, Jesus Christ is God, not a created being. 305 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,480 He's the second person of the Trinity, God the Father, God the 306 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:37,200 Son, God the Holy Spirit, self existent, always existing of 1 307 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,720 essence with the Father. It says the word of God is 308 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,880 living and powerful and sharper than any 2 edged sword, piercing 309 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,520 even the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow. 310 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,520 And as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the 311 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,040 heart. You know, when we sit here and 312 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,680 we examine ourselves in the Lord's Supper, I can just 313 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,160 picture like the sword picking away at my heart, pulling stuff 314 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,920 back. Clark, I want you to see this. 315 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,880 I want you to acknowledge this. I want you to recognize this. 316 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:07,840 I want you to let this go. Let me purify you, let me 317 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,360 carterize these places of bankruptcy in your heart, and 318 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,320 let my spirit make your heart dislike mine. 319 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,000 He's a discerner. He knows every thought and 320 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,560 intent of our heart. He knows every motive. 321 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,960 And verse 13, it says there's no creature hidden from his sight. 322 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,600 God sees the whole earth. He sees the whole world. 323 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,560 He sees every human being, all things are naked and open to the 324 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,840 eyes of him with whom we must give an account. 325 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:38,080 There's nothing I can hide. I can hide things from you, You 326 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,000 can hide things from me, but we can't hide anything from the 327 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,040 Lord God. In verse 13, it says he was 328 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,400 clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the 329 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:55,080 Word of God, the judgement that confronts God's enemies in 330 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,000 Isaiah chapter 63. If you flip over there in the 331 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,560 Old Testament, Isaiah chapter 63, this talks about this 332 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,600 Armageddon, this final battle, one day that will come upon this 333 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:12,400 earth and his second coming, the consequences of those who are 334 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:17,760 going to fight against the Lord. Who is this who comes from Edom 335 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,920 with dyed garments from Borzraw? This one who is glorious in his 336 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,480 apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? 337 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,200 And this is what we see depicted in Revelation 19. 338 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,240 I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 339 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,040 Why is your apparel read in your garments? 340 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,000 Like one who treads in the winepress? 341 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,160 Again, the same verbiage that's used in Revelation. 342 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,480 I've trodden the winepress alone and from the people. 343 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,920 No one was with me, for I've trodden them in my anger, and I 344 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,400 trampled them in my fury. Their blood is sprinkled upon my 345 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,760 garments. So what we see represented by 346 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:56,280 Christ is this battle that will ensue when He comes back. 347 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,080 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my 348 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,840 redeem has come. I look, but there was no one to 349 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,640 help, and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. 350 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,440 Therefore my arm brought salvation for me and my own 351 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,000 fury. It sustained me. 352 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,880 I've trodden down the people in my anger, made them drunk in my 353 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,360 fury, and brought down their strength to the earth. 354 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,400 His name is called the Word of God. 355 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,200 Jesus is a visible word of the unseen God. 356 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,960 I love what it says in Hebrews regarding Christ himself. 357 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:36,000 In Hebrews chapter one verse 3, Hebrews chapter one verse 3, it 358 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,120 says about Christ, who being the brightness of his glory in the 359 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:44,560 express image of His person, on upholding all things by the word 360 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,280 of his power. When he sat down by himself, He 361 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,280 purged or cleanse us from our sins. 362 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,600 He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, sat down on 363 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:58,200 the right hand of the Father. He's the express image of his 364 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,640 Father. And so as we look at this 365 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,560 section of revelation, we understand that we're going to 366 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,440 be with the Lord when he comes back. 367 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,080 And as I described the difference between the rapture 368 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,480 of the church and the second coming Christ, when he comes 369 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,080 back and the second coming, his role will be absolute and 370 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,400 authoritative. It'll be seen as an iron roll, 371 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,120 invincible in this world. When he's rolling and reigning 372 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,280 on this earth, there will be no more corrupt governments. 373 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,440 There will be no immorality rolling and raging on the 374 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,400 televisions and on the Internet, in the airwaves. 375 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,400 It'll be a time of purity and righteousness, and nothing will 376 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:47,200 be dealt with like it has been in that time compared to the way 377 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,600 it is right now. Sometimes we wonder, why do the 378 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,440 wicked rage, as the psalmist said, and the people imagine a 379 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,680 vain thing? Why is it that people refuse to 380 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,160 see their need of a Savior? Why is it that they refuse to 381 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,440 repent? Christ has given Himself 382 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:06,480 everything on behalf of the human race upon the lost, upon 383 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,640 the Sinner, and the world keeps pushing their hands away from 384 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,720 Him. During this time in the 385 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,120 millennial Kingdom, when Christ rules with an iron hand for 1000 386 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:18,240 years, there'll still be people born on the face of the earth. 387 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,720 During that thousand years, there'll be sinners that will be 388 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,120 born that will one day once again rise up at the end of that 389 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:28,560 thousand years in anarchy, at the final battle of Gog and 390 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,880 Magog. And that's right prior to the 391 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,160 destruction of the earth, when the Bible says there will be a 392 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,720 new heaven and a new earth that will be created. 393 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:43,480 So his role will be unlike anything that we're experiencing 394 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,240 today. Now, we have to keep in mind 395 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,680 though, that God's hand is still on the universe. 396 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,720 That never was off of it. Sometimes we wonder though, 397 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,680 don't we, God, how could you let this happen? 398 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,360 Why did this go on? There's a purpose and a reason 399 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,040 for everything that happens in human history. 400 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,320 God's never sleeping. He's never ignoring the 401 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,560 heartache and the pain of his people. 402 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,360 Israel had to cry out for many hundreds of years before God 403 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:12,840 sent a deliverer, didn't they? Before God sent Moses to pull 404 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,240 them out of the bondage and horror? 405 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,160 Living under Pharaoh's regime, I think about the Jews and the 406 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,480 Holocaust and those who cried out for help and for mercy. 407 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:28,080 God was not silent in that time where He had many Christians 408 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:32,640 helping the Jews find a place of safety and to get out of the 409 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,160 country. So they weren't killed in the 410 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,800 ovens, but many were. But God was there, as He will be 411 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,240 even during the Tribulation when people were going through 412 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,600 tremendous horror and heartache and heartbreak. 413 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:49,560 And yet he'll have still on the earth a remnant, 144,000 people 414 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,080 who will be going around sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, 415 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,360 saying it isn't too late. Repent. 416 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,840 Thanks for being with us today here on Living Waters of Grace. 417 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,440 We're in the Book of Revelation, and we find it fascinating how 418 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,080 influential and involved the angels are in this book. 419 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,640 They bring about whatever it is that God has instructed them to 420 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,000 do, but it's through their actions that much of the 421 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,880 judgements come on the earth. The angels are in submission to 422 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,000 God as their authority, but He utilizes them in unique ways 423 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,440 throughout this book. Like angels have a specific 424 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,120 purpose from God, you have a unique purpose and plan too. 425 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,320 God wants to use you in your life as a testimony to others 426 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,800 and to bring others who are currently lost into the fold of 427 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,480 God. God would love more than 428 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,920 anything for all who are willing to come to Him for salvation, 429 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,440 but He wants it to be their choice, not a forced situation. 430 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:55,320 This is the way God works, not forcing himself on anyone, but 431 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,520 giving each person free will. 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